Music Country

During a two-night stint at the fabled Troubadour in West Hollywood this past October, Tanya Tucker mixed classic hits, such as “San Antonio Stroll” and “It’s a Little Too Late (to Do the Right Thing Now),” with songs from her multiple-Grammy-nominated While I’m Livin’. Ablend of material exhibiting her decades-long …

Texas singer-songwriter Elaina Kay points to some important pieces of her past in the new video for “Daddy Issues,” the tough-as-nails track from her album Issues. Directed by Aly Fae and Cal Quinn, the clip was filmed at the Wichita Falls, Texas, restaurant Pioneer, which is owned by Kay’s family …

With a string of hits to his name, including the Florida Georgia Line collab “Up Down,” Morgan Wallen will embark on his third headlining tour next year. The Tennessee native is set to play major venues from Detroit to Boston on his new Whiskey Glasses Roadshow headlining tour. The tour …

Blackberry Smoke document their annual hometown throwdown in the upcoming Homecoming: Live in Atlanta, a concert film and accompanying live album set for release on November 15th. The new project was filmed last November during the stalwart Southern-rock outfit’s longstanding Brothers and Sisters Holiday Homecoming benefit show, which supports children’s …

“I’m a ghost on the radio,” sings Jon Pardi in “Call Me Country,” a swaying, steel-drenched track that arrives near the end of his new album Heartache Medication. Name-checking his country-music heroes like Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Merle Haggard, the California native places himself in the same lineage — …

Musicianship was the theme of the evening for the second of Marty Stuart‘s three Artist-in-Residence performances at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Wednesday. Titled “Psychedelic Jam-Bo-Ree” and featuring a multi-generational cast of guests, the emphasis felt tilted slightly more “jam” than “psych,” with Stuart and his …

In the opening minutes of the engrossing Ken Burns film Country Music, premiering Sunday on PBS, CMA Award-winning singer Kathy Mattea recalls her days as a tour guide at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and the hours she spent in close study of one of the museum’s …

As migrants and asylum-seekers at the United States’ southern border continue to have their entry into the country stymied by the Trump administration, a group of acclaimed musicians, including Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, Steve Earle, and Patty Griffin, are preparing a nationwide tour in support of those affected at the …

At the start of 2019, with a new record label deal on the horizon, country-blues vocal powerhouse Wynonna released a spine-chilling rendition of “Feelin’ Good,” the Sixties show tune popularized by Nina Simone. It was the first hint that the singer, now signed to the eclectic Anti- label, was defying …

“I’ve tried hard to leave here but never did could,” Rodney Crowell sings in “Deep in the Heart of Uncertain Texas,” a shuffling, picturesque highlight from his latest LP Texas, a musical tribute to the Houston-born singer-songwriter’s roots. Willie Nelson, Ronnie Dunn, and Lee Ann Womack, a trio of fellow …